I’ve always been stunned that the rise in “feminism” has often as not harmed women. I’m all for equal pay for equal work and for allowing women opportunities, such as education. But when women confuse equality and fairness with some kind of unrestrained hedonism, it isn’t a good thing.
So I’ll just say it. How in the world can LDS moms buy bikinis for their daughters?
From a Princeton University Study:
Brain scans revealed that when men are shown pictures of scantily clad women, the region of the brain associated with tools — such as screwdrivers and hammers — lit up.
Some men showed zero brain activity in the medial prefrontal cortex — which is the part of the brain that lights up when one ponders another persons thoughts, feelings, and intentions.
Researchers found this shocking, because they almost never see this part of the brain shut down in this way.
A Princeton professor said, “it’s as if they’re reacting to these women as if they are not fully human. It’s consistent with the idea that they are responding to these photographs as if they were responding to objects, not people.
And this.
Bikinis really do inspire men to see women as objects, as something to be used rather than something to connect with.
There are few ways in which good people do more harm to those who take them seriously than to defend the gospel with arguments that won’t hold water. Many of the difficulties encountered by young people going to college would be avoided if parents and teachers were more careful to distinguish between what they know to be true and what they think may be true. Impetuous youth, upon finding the authority it trusts crumbling, even on unimportant details, is apt to lump everything together and throw the baby out with the bath.
Mormons invented themselves just as other religious and ethnic groups invented themselves. But Mormons did so in such a singularly impressive way that we will probably always remain baffled as to how exactly it happened.
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